California Court of Appeal
Smith v. Adventist Health System/West, F057211
In a physician's suit against defendant and its affiliates for summarily suspending his privileges at a hospital for a brief time in 2004 and for failing to process his October 2007 reapplication for privileges at the hospital, trial court's denial of defendants' motion to strike pursuant to California's anti-SLAPP statute is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff has a reasonable probability of succeeding on his claims concerning the 2004 summary suspension; and 2) defendants failed to carry their burden of showing that plaintiff's claim concerning the failure to process his 2007 reapplication arose out of activity protected by the anti-SLAPP statute.
Appellate Information
- Decided 11/16/2010
- Published 11/16/2010
Judges
- DAWSON
Court
- California Court of Appeal
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Barry S. Landsberg, Barbara J. Hensleigh